Cyclic sieving, rotation, and geometric representation theory

Combinatorial aspects of representation theory (05E10) Semisimple Lie groups and their representations (22E46) Geometric Langlands program: representation-theoretic aspects (22E57)

Abstract: We study rotation of invariant vectors in tensor products of minuscule representations. We define a combinatorial notion of rotation of minuscule Littelmann paths. Using affine Grassmannians, we show that this rotation action is realized geometrically as rotation of components of the Satake fibre. As a consequence, we have a basis for invariant spaces which is permuted by rotation (up to global sign). Finally, we diagonalize the rotation operator by showing that its eigenspaces are given by intersection homology of quiver varieties. As a consequence, we generalize Rhoades' work on the cyclic sieving phenomenon.

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Let \(X\) be a finite set and \(c \in S_X\) be a permutation of \(X\) of order \(r\). We can study the sizes of the fixed point set \(X^{c^d}\) for \(d\geq 0\). Let \(f(q)\) be a polynomial. Following Reiner-Stanton-White, we say that \((X,c,f(q))\) exhibits the cyclic sieving phenomenon (CSP) if \(f(\zeta^d)=|X^{c^d}|\) for all \(d\geq 0\), where \(\zeta\) is a fixed primitive \(r\)th root of unity. Rhoades proved that the set of semistandard Young tableaux of fixed rectangular shape and fixed content exhibits the CSP. The goal of the present paper is to generalize Rhoades' result, simplify his proof, and situate the result in the context of geometric representation theory.

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